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Firefox deletes everything after restart.

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Every time I close FF it sign me out from all profiles, delete all pinned "top sites" and closes all the tabs. I just see blank browser like I just installed it, BUT my FF account is still signed in. What to do? Pls help

Every time I close FF it sign me out from all profiles, delete all pinned "top sites" and closes all the tabs. I just see blank browser like I just installed it, BUT my FF account is still signed in. What to do? Pls help
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Pinned tabs are considered as part of the browsing history. A detail like a website remembering you (log you in automatically) is stored in a cookie, so you need to keep these special cookies.


In case you use "Clear history when Firefox closes" or otherwise clear history.

  • do not clear the Browsing History
  • do not clear the Cookies
  • do not clear the Site Preferences
  • clearing "Site Preferences" clears exceptions for cookies, images, pop-up windows, and software installation and exception for password and other website specific data
  • clearing "Cookies" will remove all selected cookies including cookies with an allow exception you may want to keep
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Pinned tabs are considered as part of the browsing history. A detail like a website remembering you (log you in automatically) is stored in a cookie, so you need to keep these special cookies.


In case you use "Clear history when Firefox closes" or otherwise clear history.

  • do not clear the Browsing History
  • do not clear the Cookies
  • do not clear the Site Preferences
  • clearing "Site Preferences" clears exceptions for cookies, images, pop-up windows, and software installation and exception for password and other website specific data
  • clearing "Cookies" will remove all selected cookies including cookies with an allow exception you may want to keep
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axelfxz said

Every time I close FF it sign me out from all profiles, delete all pinned "top sites" and closes all the tabs. I just see blank browser like I just installed it, BUT my FF account is still signed in. What to do? Pls help

Thanks for helping! The problem was in "sync settings" I had an options on my phone selected to delete everything, though on pc these options were disabled. Turnin off synch of settings helped here!